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Ben Stiller stars in new romantic comedy.

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Q: What did you do to the ferret to
deserve getting bit?
A: I didn't do anything, I swear! It was
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I'm holding the ferret. I had just gotten a
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sensitive around my mouth, but I was
holding him up there anyway.
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film, Along Came Polly, Ben
Stiller is surely now filmdom's
foremost comedian specializing in
humorous bathroom scenes. Stiller has
the hilarious ability to get caught with
his pants down, in films from There's
Something About Mary to Meet the
Parents.
He has anotherprolonged and painful-
ly funny toilet episode in Along Came
Polly, and once again, it's all for the love
of a woman.
Stiller, raised in a Jewish home as the
son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne
Meara, plays Reuben Feffer, a Jewish,
uptight, professional risk analyst who
embarks on a risky affair with Polly, a
freewheeling bohemian, gentile beauty
played by Jennifer Aniston.
Jewish actors Debra Messing (of Will
and Grace) and Hank Azaria also star
with Stiller, whose best-laid plans for life
and love careen wildly off track when his
Jewish bride, played by Messing, dumps
him on their honeymoon for a muscle-
bound scuba instructor, played by Azaria.
Shooting the film was not exactly risk-
free for the 38-year-old actor. Aniston's
kooky character keeps ferrets as pets, and
one of the critters turned on Stiller,
chomping down on his chin. Hilarity
did not ensue; rabies shots did.
Stiller will be paired on-screen with his
real-life wife, actress Christine Taylor, in
the upcoming comedy Dodgeball: A True
Underdog Story. He will also be seen this
year as Detective Dave Starsky in the big-
screen comedy remake of Starsky
Hutch and in a Meet the Parents sequel
with the eyebrow-raising tide Meet the
Fockers.

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Ben Stiller vents his _frustration in
`Along Came Polly"
chin and it was like this surreal thing
where you think, "OK. The ferret's on
my chin." And their teeth are sharp, like
razors. But I didn't provoke him at all!

Q: Are you at all like your character in
Along Came Polly? Do you have similar
kinds of hang-ups?
A: I'm not neurotic about germs. I'll
quickly eat food off the floor if it just
dropped. I don't have that issue. But I'm
not a great dancer, so that's probably the
closest thing we share.

Q: You do have a funny salsa dancing
scene in the film, and you also get to
play racquetball. Filming those scenes
would seem to be pretty fun.
A: Well, the racquetball scene was one of
those things that we shot all day, and for
the first hour you're thinking, "Oh, this
is great! This is going to be so cool."
Of course, most people probably don't
play for more than an hour, even profes-
sional racquetball players. So those last
11 hours of the day were torturous and
horrible.

(); With Along Came Polly, you do
some pretty wild things to get laughs. Is
there anything you would not do for
comedy?
A: I guess not.

Q: Are you not embarrassed?
A: I am embarrassed. I am. What can I
tell you? I've worked with the writer-
director, John Hamburg, before. So he
and I will have a discussion about the
scenes that are sometimes difficult per-
sonally for me to approach. We talk
about it and figure out what's right for
the movie and if it's really worth it.
Usually the discussion is, "Well, we'll
try it. And if it doesn't work, it won't be
in the movie." And then it's always iri the
movie.

Along Came Polly, rated PG-I3, opens in area theaters Friday, Jan. 16.

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